I got my Ph.D. on Sep 2012 under the supervision of Dr. Xiaoli Fern. I was also working closely with Dr. Alan Fern during my Ph.D program. Currently, I am working as an Applied Researcher in Microsoft.

InsightsOne Inc.
2953 Bunker Hill Lane, Suite 400, Santa Clara, California 95054 Job Descriptin: I was working as a data scientist in the science group. The job was about developing algorithms to learn from big data in different applications such as online advertising, finance and health.

Yahoo! Labs.
4401, Great America, Santa Clara, CA, US Job Descriptin: I was working as a research scientist at Advertisement Science Labs. The project was about evaluating the creative visual features in performance display advertising. In general, the question was weather or not we are able to predict the click through rate of an image advertisement based on its beauty. (more information about this project)

BIOTRONIK.
6024, John Road, Lake Oswego, Portland, US Job Descriptin: I was working as a research scientist at Test System Lab. My research was about statistical unsupervised anomaly detection in large scale data set. In general, we had the results of almost 2000 different tests in more than 30000 devices. Unfortunately, a few devices passed all tests successfully while they were not perfectly functional. The goal was finding those devices by analyzing their test results. (more information about this project)

Ph.D. excellent candidate at Iran University of Science and Technology (2007)

Ranked 1st among AI graduate students entered in 2004 in M. Sc. program (GPA 18.31/20) at Iran University of Science and Technology

Hobbies

I enjoy listening traditional Iranian music, closing the eyes and trying to understand the romantic conversation among musical instruments. A few links to some of them [#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, ...] (and yes! I am a fan of youtuberepeat.com).

Writing is one of my favorite habits to fulfill my free time. I have been updating the weblog masterastin.blogfa.com since 2007 where I mostly write literary notes including my random poems in Farsi.

Martial Arts was my favorite exercise for many years. I started it when I was 12 years old with Taekwondo. After a few years, I switched to Kickboxing. Kung Fu To'a was my last favorite martial art which I have done it only for 2 years.